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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

McLean Smits Family Foundation

To donate funds to registered canadian charities.

C$989k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k30 grants · C$136k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$188k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$65k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$600k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROW'S THEATREC$600,000
THE COUNTY FOUNDATIONC$65,000
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCILC$27,500
COUNTY STAGE COMPANYC$25,000
CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$20,000
GIRLS E-MENTORSHIPC$20,000
TORONTO KIWANIS FESTIVALC$15,000
KOFFLER GALLERYC$10,000
BUILDING ROOTSC$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$10,000
ECOJUSTICEC$10,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$10,000
INTER PARESC$10,000
TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARYC$5,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$3.4M
British Columbia
C$61k
Alberta
C$36k
Manitoba
C$20k
Yukon
C$15k
Prince Edward Island
C$5k
Northwest Territories
C$3k
Quebec
C$1k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 67 repeat orgsC$264k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
32

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+15%

Still filing today

97%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • CT
    CROW'S THEATRE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$981k · revenue +269%
  • CF
    COUNTY FOUNDATIOIN
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$285k · revenue +94%
  • CF
    Community Food Centres Canada
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$125k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • WF
    WOODGREEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +236%
  • FO
    Friends of Partners in the Horn of Africa
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -100%
  • AO
    ART OF TIMEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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2
Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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3
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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4
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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5
The Factory Theatre Lab

Develop produce and present canadian plays thereby supporting and nourishing the canadian theatre scene playwrights and actors with a focus on supporting artists from diverse communities - provide artists support through development…

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6
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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7
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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8
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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9
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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10
Tarragon Theatre

Tarrgon theater creates develops and produces new canadian theatre that illuminates the diversity and complexsity of the conteporary human experence. tarragon trains and supports new generation emerging and established artist theorug…

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11
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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12
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Peggy Baker Dance Projects. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
65/96
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$981,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetCOUNTY FOUNDATIOIN — C$285,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$270,250 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCOUNTY STAGE COMPANY — C$150,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCommunity Food Centres Canada — C$125,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL — C$100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetECO JUSTICE — C$93,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO KIWANIS FESTIVAL — C$61,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetThe Equality Effect — C$55,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE — C$54,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINTER PARES — C$45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION ETHIOPIA — C$40,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — C$36,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGIRLS E-MENTORSHIP — C$35,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNIGHWOOD THEATRE — C$35,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEQUALITY FUND — C$34,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Defense — C$31,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS — C$30,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCorssroads International — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEGGY BAKER DANCE PROJECTS — C$27,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCODE — C$27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKOFFLER GALLERY — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Art Foundation — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRedwood Shelter — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Partners in the Horn of Africa — C$25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetART OF TIME — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCanadian Women's Foundation — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE — C$22,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGROWING NEIGHBOURHOODS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFred Victor — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNDINAWE RESOURCE CENTRE — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO FARMLAND TRUST — C$19,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD SHARE — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTides Canada — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN — C$16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERING — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH FRY TORONTO — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWar Child — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNECESSARY ANGEL THEATRE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES — C$14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CROW'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds COUNTY FOUNDATIOIN ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNTY STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Centres Canada ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ECO JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO KIWANIS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds The Equality Effect ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds WOODGREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTER PARES ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ETHIOPIA ↗
  • Who funds CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS E-MENTORSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NIGHWOOD THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Defense ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Corssroads International ↗
  • Who funds PEGGY BAKER DANCE PROJECTS ↗
  • Who funds CODE ↗
  • Who funds KOFFLER GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Art Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Redwood Shelter ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Partners in the Horn of Africa ↗
  • Who funds ART OF TIME ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Women's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GROWING NEIGHBOURHOODS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Fred Victor ↗
  • Who funds NDINAWE RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McLean FoundationThe George Cedric Met…The Catherine and Max…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Toronto FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…Kingfisher FoundationThe K. M. Hunter Char…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Ontario Arts Foundati…Donner Canadian Found…R. Howard Webster Fou…
The McLean FoundationON27.3× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Donner Canadian Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 839071818:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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